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For me your age wouldn't be a factor but your lack of experience is. Especially if your goal here is professional Assembly development, those jobs don't usually
by ebbv 10y ago
For me your age wouldn't be a factor but your lack of experience is. Especially if your goal here is professional Assembly development, those jobs don't usually go to someone with no experience.
If you really want to get into programming, I'd go for something higher level like PHP, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, etc. Then create some stuff in the language(s) you've chosen. This will give you a shot at getting a junior level job in that language.
When I hire someone to a junior level position, I'm still not going to hire someone with no experience. It's going to be someone with less experience but still some. I don't have the time to teach someone starting from zero. You need to go from zero to a low level of experience on your own.
- gizmo 10y agoSomebody who expresses a love for assembly programming won't necessary love php programming as much. Your advice may be practical, but there's more to life than practicality. As others pointed out: 45 is young and you can do low level programming for as long as you've got your health. At 45 you still have half your career ahead of you. It's not so hard to demonstrate assembly knowledge by putting some projects on github. Low level programmers are in high demand, so it's just a matter of interviewing until you get a yes.